China’s New Maglev Train Maybe Among the Fastest Ever (but doesn’t have a Track Yet)
China has unveiled its new magnetic levitation (maglev) train, thought to be among the fastest ground vehicles in the world (if you skip the record-breaking…
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3D-Printed Robotic Hand Successfully Plays Super Mario Bros
The first level of the original Super Mario Bros. game is a piece of cake for most people but has always presented a big hurdle…
Zoom Buys Cloud Call Center Firm Five9 for $14.7 Billion
Zoom is taking advantage of the impressive rise in its share price last year to make its first major acquisition. The popular video conferencing company,…
Yummy Raises $4M, Aims to be ‘Super App of Venezuela’
Aiming to create a super app for the country, Venezuela-based distribution application Yumi announced on Friday that it had raised $4 million to expand its…
Xiaomi Global Shipments Push Past Apple for No. 2 Spot
According to a recently posted Q2 issue by research firm Canalis, a banner quarter for Geomi has helped the Chinese mobile company rank second in…
What Impact will Apple’s Buy Now, Pay Later Push have On Startups?
Bloomberg broke the news earlier this week that consumer hardware giant Apple is now making a purchase with a growing service focus, offering later (BNPL)…
The New Anthony Bourdain Documentary ‘Roadrunner’ leans Partly on Deepfaked Audio
July 16, Roadrunner: A film about Anthony Bordine opens in US theaters. Like many documentaries, the film tries to tell the story of their subject…
The End of Open Source
Several weeks ago, the Linux community received the disappointing news that researchers at the University of Minnesota had developed a method to work with the…
The latest Distraction-free Freewrite Features an Ernest Hemingway Monogrammed Attaché Case
In our review last year, we called Free Right Traveler “outstanding, but expensive.” The latest version of Astrohouse’s ‘Distraction-Free Word Processing Hardware Tool’ does very…
The CockroachDB EC-1
Each application is a polympst of technologies, each layer creating a base that enables the next layer to work. The web front relies on JavaScript…
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